unpalatable

That hands-off approach is likely to continue under Trump because requiring certain states to accept painful cutbacks may be politically unpalatable, Gold said.

Some experts said Hezbollah may have to limit itself to continuing smaller cross-border attacks, hoping it can make them last long enough to inflict pain on Israeli society to make the conflict unpalatable.

A recognition that the bombshells revealed in the first version of “Spare” caused so much damage that to say anything else, after a challenging few months for the royal family, would be unpalatable?

Now, the new government has been pushed to do something unpalatable - early releases on a big scale - because the unsayable went unsaid.

The way that authorities dismiss this answer without examination has the feeling of a politically correct speaker anxiously avoiding an unpalatable truth.